CHAPTER VIII-b

THE BAY OF PIGS AND THE KENNEDY

ASSASSINATION

"...JM/WAVE ...proliferated across [Florida] in preparation for the Bay of

Pigs invasion. A subculture of fronts, proprietaries, suppliers, transfer

agents, conduits, dummy corporations, blind drops, detective agencies,

law firms, electronic firms, shopping centers, airlines, radio stations, the

mob and the church and the banks: a false and secret nervous system

twitching to stimuli supplied by the cortex in Clandestine Services in

Langley. After defeat on the beach in Cuba, JM/WAVE became a

continuing and extended Miami Station, CIA's largest in the continental

United States. A large sign in front of the [...] building complex reads: US

GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS PROHIBIT DISCUSSION OF THIS

ORGANIZATION OR FACILITY.

Donald Freed, Death in Washington (Westport, Connecticut, 1980), p.

141.

The review offered so far of George Bush's activities during the late 1950's and

early 1960's is almost certainly incomplete in very important respects. There is

good reason to believe that Bush was engaged in something more than just the oil

business during those years. Starting about the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion in

the spring of 1961, we have the first hints that Bush, in addition to working for

Zapata Offshore, may also have been a participant in certain covert operations of

the US intelligence community.

Such participation would certainly be coherent with George's role in the Prescott

Bush, Skull and Bones, and Brown Brothers, Harriman networks. During the

twentieth century, the Skull and Bones/Harriman circles have always maintained

a sizable and often decisive presence inside the intelligence organizations of the

State Department, the Treasury Department, the Office of Naval Intelligence, the

Office of Strategic Services, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Indeed, the

Harriman and related Anglophile financier factions of Wall Street have generally

regarded those parts of the state apparatus dealing with intelligence and covert

operations as their own very special property, property which had to be kept

seeded with control networks in order to be effectively steered from above. For

George Bush to interface with the intelligence community while ostensibly